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"If I can't get a real date for the dance, I just won't go," she'd told her mother.
"Oh, no, young lady," Mrs. Fowler had insisted. "It's the biggest event of the year at the school and if the principal's own daughter stays home, people will talk."
"Not as much as they'll talk if I go with Tommy," Cindy had pouted.
"You're lucky your cousin has agreed to take you. There are other girls he could've taken to the dance, but he's gentleman enough to do you this favor."
"If I can't get a real date for the dance, I just won't go," she'd told her mother.
"Oh, no, young lady," Mrs. Fowler had insisted. "It's the biggest event of the year at the school and if the principal's own daughter stays home, people will talk."
"Not as much as they'll talk if I go with Tommy," Cindy had pouted.
"You're lucky your cousin has agreed to take you. There are other girls he could've taken to the dance, but he's gentleman enough to do you this favor."